The northern Qiangtang Block rapid drift during the Triassic Period: Paleomagnetic evidence by Yanan Zhou, Xin Cheng, Yiying Wu, Vadim Kravchinsky, Ruiqi Shao, Weijie Zhang, Bitian Wei, Ruiyao Zhang, Fanrong Lu, Hanning Wu

“…Keywords: Northern Qiangtang block, Paleomagnetism, Plate tectonics, Tethys ocean, Tibetan plateau, Triassic…”
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Ophiolites of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Geochemical and petrological characterization and tectonic settings by Harald Furnes, Inna Safonova

“…As most MOR ophiolites get subducted to the deep mantle, the subduction-related ophiolites have become a dominant ophiolitic type on Earth's surface through all times supporting the idea about the early start of Plate Tectonics. Keywords: Geochemical classification, Subduction-unrelated units, Subduction-related units, Subduction fingerprint, Intra-plate magmas, Arc erosion…”
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Horizontal Force Required for Subduction Initiation at Passive Margins With Constraints From Slab Detachment by Lorenzo G. Candioti, Thibault Duretz, Stefan M. Schmalholz

“…Subduction zones are essential drivers of plate tectonics. However, the processes causing subduction zone initiation (SZI), involving the formation of a new plate boundary, and the forces required remain disputed. …”
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Effects of lithospheric strength on convection in the Earth's mantle by Conrad, Clinton Phillips, 1971-

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Mafic Archean continental crust prohibited exhumation of orogenic UHP eclogite by Palin, Richard.M., Moore, James Daniel Paul, Zhang, Zeming, Huang, Guangyu, Wade, Jon, Dyck, Brendan

“…UHP orogenic eclogite may thus readily have formed on the Archean Earth, but could not have been exhumed, weakening arguments for a Neoproterozoic onset of subduction and plate tectonics. Further, isostatic balance calculations for more mafic Archean continents indicate that the early Earth was covered by a global ocean over 1 km deep, corroborating independent isotopic evidence for large-scale emergence of the continents no earlier than c. 3 Ga. …”
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Evolution of lithofacies and paleogeography and hydrocarbon distribution worldwide (I) by Guangya ZHANG, Xiaoguang TONG, Renchen XIN, Zhixin WEN, Feng MA, Tongfei HUANG, Zhaoming WANG, Bingsong YU, Yuejun LI, Hanlin CHEN, Xiaobing LIU, Zuodong LIU

“…Key words: global, lithofacies and paleogeography, paleogeography map, plate tectonics, prototype basin, tectonic evolution, lithofacies assemblage, oil and gas distribution…”
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Soil Fertility Changes With Climate and Island Age in Galápagos: New Baseline Data for Sustainable Agricultural Management by Matthias Strahlhofer, Martin H. Gerzabek, Nicola Rampazzo, Paulina M. Couenberg, Evelyn Vera, Xavier Salazar Valenzuela, Franz Zehetner, Franz Zehetner

“…However, a systematic assessment of the agricultural soils on the Galápagos Islands is still absent. Plate tectonics and hotspot volcanism cause an eastward drift of the archipelago and result in a west-to-east soil age gradient from approx. 1 to 1,000 ka. …”
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A Thirty-Month Seafloor Test of the A-0-A Method for Calibrating Pressure Gauges by William S. D. Wilcock, Dana A. Manalang, Erik K. Fredrickson, Michael J. Harrington, Geoff Cram, James Tilley, Justin Burnett, Derek Martin, Taro Kobayashi, Jerome M. Paros

“…Geodetic observations in the oceans are important for understanding plate tectonics, earthquake cycles and volcanic processes. …”
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Composite Strike-Slip Deformation Belts and Their Control on Oil and Gas Reservoirs: A Case Study of the Northern Part of the Shunbei 5 Strike-Slip Deformation Belt in Tarim Basin,... by Haowei Yuan, Haowei Yuan, Shuping Chen, Shuping Chen, Yuan Neng, Huaibo Zhao, Huaibo Zhao, Shidong Xu, Shidong Xu, Xinpeng Wang, Xinpeng Wang, Guimin Feng, Guimin Feng

“…To this end, its structural framework, tectonic evolution, and associated plate tectonics were investigated using 2D and 3D seismic data. …”
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Classification and hydrocarbon distribution of passive continental margin basins by Zhixin WEN, Hong XU, Zhaoming WANG, Zhengjun HE, Chengpeng SONG, Xi CHEN, Yonghua WANG

“…Sixty-six passive continental margin basins around the world were compared comprehensively from the aspect of seismogeology on the basis of plate tectonics. According to their textural and structural differences, passive continental margin basins were classified into seven subdivisions, i.e., rifted basin, non-saline faulted depression basin, saline faulted depression basin, non-saline depression basin, saline depression basin, delta reformed basin and positive reverse deformed basin. …”
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Consensus on consensus: a synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming by John Cook, Naomi Oreskes, Peter T Doran, William R L Anderegg, Bart Verheggen, Ed W Maibach, J Stuart Carlton, Stephan Lewandowsky, Andrew G Skuce, Sarah A Green, Dana Nuccitelli, Peter Jacobs, Mark Richardson, Bärbel Winkler, Rob Painting, Ken Rice

“…At one point, Tol also reduces the apparent consensus by assuming that abstracts that do not explicitly state the cause of global warming (‘no position’) represent non-endorsement, an approach that if applied elsewhere would reject consensus on well-established theories such as plate tectonics. We examine the available studies and conclude that the finding of 97% consensus in published climate research is robust and consistent with other surveys of climate scientists and peer-reviewed studies.…”
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Time series analysis of mantle cycles Part II: The geologic record in zircons, large igneous provinces and mantle lithosphere by Kent C. Condie, Stephen J. Puetz

“…The First Transition may represent a change from stagnant-lid tectonics into plate tectonics and the Second Transition, the onset of subduction of continental crust. …”
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Editorial : volumes, timescales, and frequency of magmatic processes in the earth's lithosphere by Pistone, Mattia, Taisne, Benoît, Dobson, Katherine J.

“…Establishing the link between magmageneration, transport, emplacement, and eruption is therefore essential to significantly improveour understanding of crust-forming processes associated with plate tectonics, and help determinethe Earth’s lithosphere architecture, composition, and dynamics. …”
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Patterns of causative faults of normal earthquakes in the fluid‐rich outer rise of northeastern Japan, constrained with 3D teleseismic waveform modeling by Qian, Yunyi, Chen, Xiaofei, Wu, Wenbo, Wei, Shengji, Ni, Sidao, Xu, Min, Qin, Yanfang, Nakamura, Yasuyuki, Zhou, Yong, Sun, Daoyuan

“…Accurate earthquake source parameters are crucial for understanding plate tectonics, yet, it is difficult to determine these parameters precisely for offshore events, especially for outer-rise earthquakes, as the limited availability of direct P or S wave data sets from land-based seismic networks and the unsuitability of simplified 1D methods for the complex 3D structures of subducting systems. …”
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The relationship between mantle pH and the deep nitrogen cycle by Mikhail, S, Barry, P, Sverjensky, D

“…Nitrogen is distributed throughout all terrestrial geological reservoirs (i.e., the crust, mantle, and core), which are in a constant state of disequilibrium due to metabolic factors at Earth’s surface, chemical weathering, diffusion, and deep N fluxes imposed by plate tectonics. However, the behavior of nitrogen during subduction is the subject of ongoing debate. …”

Influence of contamination on banded iron formations in the Isua supracrustal belt, West Greenland: Reevaluation of the Eoarchean seawater compositions by Shogo Aoki, Chiho Kabashima, Yasuhiro Kato, Takafumi Hirata, Tsuyoshi Komiya

“…The stratigraphic changes indicate that a ratio of hydrothermal fluid to seawater component gradually decrease through the deposition, and support the Eoarchean plate tectonics, analogous to the their stratigraphic variations of seafloor metalliferous sediments at present and in the Mesoarchean. …”
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Study of ore-forming theoretical innovation and prospecting breakthrough of magmatic copper–nickel–cobalt sulfide deposits in China by LI Wenyuan

“…The Tethys type is represented by the Xiarihamu ore deposit, and it is the product of the Tethys structural transformation, which the Paleo-Tethys cracking after the Proto-Tethys orogeny; the Central Asian type is represented by a large number of the early Permian of the Late Palaeozoic magmatic copper–nickel–cobalt sulfide deposits distributed in the Eastern Tianshan–Beishan and Altai zones of the Central Asian Orogenic belt, which is the result of the dual geodynamics mechanism of plate tectonics and mantle plume. China's magmatic copper–nickel–cobalt sulfide deposit has huge prospecting potential, and the Jinchuan deposit as a result of nappe structure from deep horizontal “sill” thrusted to the surface of the inclined “dyke”, it still has significant prospecting potential in its deep and marginal locations, in which important new ore bodies have been found at both ends of the ore-bearing rock body; more than 10 new ore deposits (points) have been found in East Kunlun and its adjacent areas, where the Xiarihamu deposit is located. …”
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The preserved plume of the Caribbean Large Igneous Plateau revealed by 3D data-integrative models by Á. M. Gómez-García, Á. M. Gómez-García, Á. M. Gómez-García, Á. M. Gómez-García, E. Le Breton, M. Scheck-Wenderoth, G. Monsalve, D. Anikiev

“…Strong geochemical evidence supports the hypothesis that the C-LIP formed due to melting of the plume head of the Galápagos hotspot, which interacted with the Farallon (Proto-Caribbean) plate in the eastern Pacific. Considering plate tectonics theory, it is expected that the lithospheric portion of the plume-related material migrated within the Proto-Caribbean plate in a north–north-eastward direction, developing the present-day Caribbean plate. …”
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Ophiolites in ocean-continent transitions: from the Steinmann Trinity to sea-floor spreading by Bernoulli, D, Jenkyns, H

“…Before the theory of plate tectonics took hold, there was no coherent model for ocean-continent transitions that included both extant continental margins and fragmentary ancient examples preserved in orogenic belts. …”

Ophiolites in ocean-continent transitions: From the Steinmann Trinity to sea-floor spreading by Bernoulli, D, Jenkyns, H

“…Before the theory of plate tectonics took hold, there was no coherent model for ocean-continent transitions that included both extant continental margins and fragmentary ancient examples preserved in orogenic belts. …”